Rivo PCI-E Riser PCIe M.2 PCIe SSD to PCIe Express 3.0 x4 Adapter Card - Supports M2 NGFF PCI-e 3.0, 2.0 or 1.0, NVMe or AHCI, M-Key, 2280, 2260, 2242, 2230 Solid State Drives

I installed a 1 TB Samsung 970 EVO M.2 using this Rivo PCIe x4 adapter card on an ASUS P9X79 3.2 GHz motherboard with an i7 3930K processor and it worked great (SYX machine circa 2013). No additional cabling needed, just install the card on the board and put it in an empty PCIe slot. The card is a PCIe x4, but you can use a PCIe x4, x8 or x16 slot. I used an x16 because I didn't have an x4 available. It's pretty straightforward. First install the gold-colored screw through the back of the adapter and secure it with the gold colored nut. The nut serves as a stand-off to provide air flow under the M.2 card. Remember to insert the M.2 into the contacts on the card at an angle, then press it down to the stand-off and secure it with the charcoal colored screw. Install the card in your PCIe slot and you're done with the hardware installation. I can read/write about 450-480MB/s from this drive to an internal Samsung 2TB V-NAND 860 QVO SATA drive I use for backup. Pretty impressive for this old machine...

Worked perfectly for NVMe drive. It came with *two* screws (one installed, one in a bag) so I could also use the spare screw for a different drive.

Straightforwardly allows the mounting of an additional M.2 SSD in a desktop computer as long as you have a free PCIe slot. SSD mounted on the card is recognized in the BIOS.

A quality PCIe card, easily installed and recognized by my system. The NVME drive I put on the card (Samsung 970 Pro) was recognized as a storage drive and cloning using Samsung Magician worked straight away. I was hoping to boot from it but unfortunately, it didn't work for my needs as a boot drive on my Dell Inspiron 3668 running Windows 10 Pro. I had quite a few questions for the seller while trying to enable booting from the card and they were very prompt with their responses, answering within a day usually and sending suggestions and documentation to help me try and fix. The boot issue ultimately seems to have to do with my motherboard and BIOS and not the PCIe card.I ended up getting a different Rivo PCIe card from them, the dual NVME and M.2 SATA card. First time I installed I was able to boot from the SATA part of the drive using a Samsung 860 Evo SATA NVME drive. As expected, the computer starts up and shuts down much faster than when running the stock HDD. Large OS-installed programs run noticibly quicker as well. I'm very happy with the purchase. I wish all Amazon sellers were this easy to work with and hope to have the opportunity to order from Rivo again!

Although the card functions perfectly well, I had to significantly bend the bracket to make the card seat correctly when secured. When the card is seated properly (pressed all the way in) the bracket is about an 1/8 in too short. If you secure the card with a screw, the card pulls out of the motherboard on the right side and sits "crooked".Attached are photos of:The card seated correctly with no screw and the bracket clearly being too short (First and fourth photo)How much I had to bend the bracket to make it work when secures. I used my floorboard as a line reference. (Third photo)The card seated and secured in the PC showing the bend to make it work. (Second photo)Not sure if I just got a bum card and it was an easy fix, just a minor annoyance.

I installed it in a ASRock 990FX Extreme 9 system running openSUSE after upgrading the BIOS, and it's running with no problems on this PCIe 2.0 motherboard.I do remember having a bit of a problem installing the Adata XPG SX8200 Pro SSD.The screw might not have been included with the riser card.I think I used the one included with the SSD.

The card itself is reasonably well made. It also would function properly and simply (it's really not that hard to make something this simple). The problem with the product is that the mounting hardware fails completely. How hard would it be to make a mounting screw ever so slightly longer so that the card was usable? Luckily, Amazon makes returns easy ...

It appears to be a well-built card. I bought it to use with my Samsung 960 EVO M2 card and the only issueI have with it is the screw that is supplied with it is too short. When the card is installed and pushed down flush, the screw isn't long enough to protrude far enough for the nut to grab hold. So, it is off to the hardware store to see if I can find a longer one.